Advanced Business Power

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Introduction

Advanced Business Power is an online course consisting of 50 units of English and providing approximately 60 hours of study for students.

Course aims

To give students at Upper Intermediate CEFR C1 level practice in general and business-oriented language required for general business contexts at this level. The course blends grammatical structures necessary for this level with vocabulary, reading, listening, writing, and speaking.

Tata bahasa

By the end of the course students will be able to:

  • talk about quantity
  • accurately use countable and uncountable nouns
  • use conditional sentences to talk about unlikely actions in the future and impossible alternative present and past situations and regrets
  • use modal verbs to talk about possibility, certainty, advice, and obligation
  • use gerund and infinitive forms of verbs
  • use appropriate conjunctions and linking words to connect clauses and sentences
  • use definite, indefinite, and zero articles
  • use appropriate forms to express a variety of future situations

Kosakata

By the end of the course students will have learnt approximately 400 lexical items including nouns, verbs, adjectives, phrasal verbs, idiomatic language, and lexical sets.

Skills

By the end of the course students will have had exposure to and practice in reading and hearing formal and informal English from a variety of business contexts, including meetings, presentations, travel arrangements, and dealing with staff.

Unit summary

Entry test

  • A 50-question test: which will be used for comparative purposes with the end of course exit test.

Module 1

  • Tata bahasa: Talking about quantity
  • Kosakata: Formal and informal equivalents 1
  • Membaca: 7 steps to a successful marketing campaign
  • Mendengarkan: A company with no boss
  • Kosakata: Phrasal verbs 01
  • Tata bahasa: Modal Verbs
  • Kosakata: People in business
  • Membaca: Cost of living crisis
  • Mendengarkan: Women say no to non-promotable tasks
  • Kosakata: Wordbuilding 01

Module 2

  • Tata bahasa: Mixed Conditionals
  • Kosakata: Business idioms 1
  • Membaca: How I made my millions
  • Mendengarkan: Airline Strikes
  • Kosakata: Phrasal verbs 02
  • Tata bahasa: Relative Clauses
  • Kosakata: Confusing words
  • Membaca: Office housework: Not a woman’s job!
  • Mendengarkan: The Harry Potter business
  • Kosakata: Wordbuilding 02

Module 3

  • Tata bahasa: Conjunctions and Connectors
  • Kosakata: Collocations: Adjective + Noun 1
  • Membaca: The story of Marmite
  • Mendengarkan: Flying technology
  • Kosakata: Phrasal verbs 03
  • Tata bahasa: Gerunds and Infinitives
  • Kosakata: Business meetings
  • Membaca: When communication breaks down
  • Mendengarkan: The digital world: are the elderly being left behind?
  • Kosakata: Wordbuilding 03

Module 4

  • Tata bahasa: Wishes
  • Kosakata: Prepositional collocations 1
  • Membaca: A job vacancy
  • Mendengarkan: Kidfluencers
  • Kosakata: Phrasal verbs 04
  • Tata bahasa: Talking about the future
  • Kosakata: Pay
  • Membaca: Downshifting
  • Mendengarkan: The appeal of streaming games
  • Kosakata: Wordbuilding 04

Module 5

  • Tata bahasa: Articles
  • Kosakata: Formal and informal equivalents 2
  • Membaca: Fair trade
  • Mendengarkan: Meetings: love them or hate them
  • Kosakata: Phrasal verbs 05
  • Tata bahasa: Verb Patterns
  • Kosakata: Abbreviations
  • Membaca: Online retailer hits the buffers
  • Mendengarkan: Robots in the workplace
  • Kosakata: Wordbuilding 05

Exit test

  • A 50-question test: which covers the same areas as the entry test thereby giving students an accurate measure of their progress through the course.

Follow-up

Students completing the Advanced Business Power course should feel confident in tackling any advanced level course including our Advanced Plus Power course.